Template help: Add reach to the base creature

[Bishop37]

I want to have a template that adds 5 ft. to the base reach of the creature. I do not want it to simply add the "reach" quality to the creature's attacks (like I've seen some feats do), as if the creature uses a reach weapon it should have the benefit of the increased base reach AND the reach quality of the weapon.

Many creatures do not have a base reach set, so if you try to add 5 to the reach you end up with a creature with a reach of 4 (I have no idea why that is...I'm assuming that something in the code has the default reach set to the greater of -1 or the reach as determined by size).

Right now, I think I can make it work by explicitly saying "if creature has a set reach, add 5. If it doesn't have a reach, then if its size X, then set reach to Y" and so on, with statements for each size category.

I foresee many "if...then" statements in my future, but I wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts on how to streamline this.

Thanks,
Rob

 

[chiefweasel]

I guess i am a bit confused. all creatures have a reach value, its at the bottom of the Basics colunm.

Are you lookin to just have that increased by 5 feet or are you looking for something else?

 

[Bishop37]

I guess i am a bit confused. all creatures have a reach value, its at the bottom of the Basics colunm.

Are you lookin to just have that increased by 5 feet or are you looking for something else?

Yeah. However, reach isn't manually defined for every creature...most seem to inherit their reach from their size; the exception is for creatures that have a non-standard reach to begin with.

 

[Mathias]

A character's reach is stored in herofield[tReach].value

The reach calculated from size and any racial overwrites of that default reach are applied at Final/10000, so you can add +5 to that value after Final/10000.